Another deeply flawed, tech-forward endeavour for Zemeckis in which glimmers of human emotion only occasionally break through. Like Cloud Atlas for baby boomers experiencing late-middle-age malaise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2025

Here may be a prodigy of hyper-choreographed trickery, but its folksy self-importance suggests a less fleet-footed variant on Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2025

It's not mawk-ish; it's mawk. It's just the most saccharine, sentimental, fatuous, surface-scratching non-sense.

| Feb 1, 2025

This garish tomb of a film insists it’s full of life.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2025

It’s like watching the Sims get dementia, and all it says as art, despite the grossly saccharine intentions of the film-makers, is that life is cruel, empty and beastly short, and we’ll probably spend most of it trapped in a house.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2025

It’s an alienatingly ugly technique and a mawkish tear-jerker choked up with synthetic sentimentality. You start to envy the dinosaurs their extinction event.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2025

... The film is so self-conscious in its pursuit of what is an essentially unattainable goal, that it all ends up coming across as re-fried soap opera.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2025

Ultimately, this story represents one of the first successful uses of de-aging technology

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2025

The dreamy quirkiness keeps you watching and the folksy warmth of performances from Tom Hanks and Robin Wright encourage you to cut it some slack.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

If the point of Here is merely to observe ordinary life, why is it so stilted? So plainly manipulated? What, then, is the point of all this technology, beyond its mere existence?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Here, adapted by Zemeckis with Eric Roth from Richard McGuire’s acclaimed 2014 graphic novel, is as flavorless and fungible as a freshly packaged loaf of Wonder Bread.

| Nov 21, 2024

'Here' is a soulless, meandering bore, proving that nostalgia and tech tricks can’t save a story with nowhere to go.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 8, 2024

While Hanks and Wright pull off the impossible, emoting somewhat effectively despite the overuse of de-aging technology, it wasn't enough to save this film from feeling gimmicky instead of genuine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2024

This film is interesting to look at if you are interested in movie-making technique, but as a drama it is rather undramatic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 3, 2024

This is a home run swing that results in a strikeout and a long trudge back to the dugout.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2024

By the time the credits roll, you half expect the logo for a home insurance company to come up, because that’s what this whisper of a film feels like: a commercial for homeowners insurance.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2024

Alas, it all amounts to another unlucky roll of the digital dice thanks to an excess of AI, a surfeit of random incidents and a lack of empathetic storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2024

Mr. Zemeckis, who in “Gump” made perhaps the quintessential Boomer picture, is stuck in a mode of storytelling meant to appeal to a previous generation: He delivers his narrative beats in the most cloying, insufferable, overdetermined way.

| Nov 2, 2024

On the page, the limitations somehow feel groundbreaking and expansive. Onscreen, the film somehow reduces the same notion of one angle/one thousand different moments to little more than a blinkered gimmick.

| Nov 1, 2024

Sentimental is nothing new for Zemeckis. But it’s impossible not to look at Here -- an ornamental but occasionally amusing and even moving film about time slipping away -- and sense that he’s getting at least a bit retrospective.

| Nov 1, 2024